PrairieCraft
Well-Known Member
I fell off of my horse a couple days ago and sprained my ankle. Haven't been able to go to work the past couple days and have been spending a lot of time on the couch with my stupid foot up. It sounds like it would be nice and relaxing but omg I'm going to lose my mind just sitting here. I've already spent all of my extra soap money and have 3 different FO orders on the way. I want to soap or clean or go outside and garden with my husband or something!!
So, I'm sitting here looking around on etsy for creative ideas and to see if anyone else out there is already doing things that I'm considering. Usually, yes, they are. Normally what other people do doesn't bother me as long as it doesn't impact me and I know people on the forum gripe about soap sellers and their untruthful marketing campaigns all the time. So much that it seems we would all be desensitized to it.
But, I'll be damned if there aren't people out there who will just throw something together and stick an outrageous claim on it to sell their crap product. (if you have to lie about it, it's crap) I am an overly critical, picky nut who obsesses about the details. It just kills me to see an idea that could be good done all half-assed by someone just looking to make a buck. There is almost no theme that exists that someone hasn't used already and if they're doing it very well then it is fun to see and if they aren't they're just taking away from the efforts of someone with more devotion to the craft.
Natural and organic are marketing ploys that we have all talked about til we're blue in the face. Not listing ingredients is something most of us agree is bad practice. Making claims about your product and it's healing abilities are something we know is wrong. Why does it still get my blood boiling to come across this stuff in peoples etsy shops?!
I just found a lady (and she even displays a pic of herself!) who is claiming that her very plain and uninteresting soaps which appear to be MP (nothing against the MP artisans out there who do fabulous work but a lot of the stuff for sale is just a little color and FO in a mold without anything to make it stand out) she says that her soaps contain anti-aging vitamins and minerals!! What?! Do people really fall for this?
Then she doesn't even list what these ingredients are. Maybe we should all be making fountain of youth magic soap. Is there even a way to stand out among all the other soapers while being truthful? Do these people who make claims like this really believe it themselves? I had to stop looking. Just makes me think of Krissy's experience with the soaper at the farmers market who didn't know wth kind of soap she was making and selling. There are some people who would sell you whatever they can without a care for quality and then the people who really do care about quality are so concerned about having a good product that they aren't even selling theirs at all.
Ignorance is bliss and sometimes I wish I was. It seems like an easier path to take sometimes.
Sorry for the rant I have way too much energy to sit for days and normally find much more constructive and positive ways to release it but I'm feeling like being a crabby beeotch right now.
So, I'm sitting here looking around on etsy for creative ideas and to see if anyone else out there is already doing things that I'm considering. Usually, yes, they are. Normally what other people do doesn't bother me as long as it doesn't impact me and I know people on the forum gripe about soap sellers and their untruthful marketing campaigns all the time. So much that it seems we would all be desensitized to it.
But, I'll be damned if there aren't people out there who will just throw something together and stick an outrageous claim on it to sell their crap product. (if you have to lie about it, it's crap) I am an overly critical, picky nut who obsesses about the details. It just kills me to see an idea that could be good done all half-assed by someone just looking to make a buck. There is almost no theme that exists that someone hasn't used already and if they're doing it very well then it is fun to see and if they aren't they're just taking away from the efforts of someone with more devotion to the craft.
Natural and organic are marketing ploys that we have all talked about til we're blue in the face. Not listing ingredients is something most of us agree is bad practice. Making claims about your product and it's healing abilities are something we know is wrong. Why does it still get my blood boiling to come across this stuff in peoples etsy shops?!
I just found a lady (and she even displays a pic of herself!) who is claiming that her very plain and uninteresting soaps which appear to be MP (nothing against the MP artisans out there who do fabulous work but a lot of the stuff for sale is just a little color and FO in a mold without anything to make it stand out) she says that her soaps contain anti-aging vitamins and minerals!! What?! Do people really fall for this?
Then she doesn't even list what these ingredients are. Maybe we should all be making fountain of youth magic soap. Is there even a way to stand out among all the other soapers while being truthful? Do these people who make claims like this really believe it themselves? I had to stop looking. Just makes me think of Krissy's experience with the soaper at the farmers market who didn't know wth kind of soap she was making and selling. There are some people who would sell you whatever they can without a care for quality and then the people who really do care about quality are so concerned about having a good product that they aren't even selling theirs at all.
Ignorance is bliss and sometimes I wish I was. It seems like an easier path to take sometimes.
Sorry for the rant I have way too much energy to sit for days and normally find much more constructive and positive ways to release it but I'm feeling like being a crabby beeotch right now.